Re: Asus launches Chromebox 3 desktops with 8th gen Intel CPUs

Originally Posted by 3dcandy

Retroarch runs very well on that class of hardware. There's ya NES/Sega/Amiga/MAME needs sorted

On that class of hardware yes, but in the same way that running Windows on anything other than x86 seems like a route to pain, running Google stuff on anything other than ARM seems like like a bad idea. To pay more for the privilege?

Re: Asus launches Chromebox 3 desktops with 8th gen Intel CPUs

I'm confused. Isn't the idea of a Chromebox thing that it is a simple, energy efficient machine that can do pretty much all the basics well (web browsing, office, multimedia) on a low powered set of hardware? What, then is the point of having an i7 one? Surely you're not going to be video editing properly on these things (you may dabble like on a mobile phone, but if you want to do a lot of that you buy something with support from proper software, like a Mac or Windows machine).

Am I missing something? Why would you do this? Surely if an SoC designed for a phone can handle 4K decoding, you don't need an i7 in something like this?

Re: Asus launches Chromebox 3 desktops with 8th gen Intel CPUs

Am I missing something? Why would you do this? Surely if an SoC designed for a phone can handle 4K decoding, you don't need an i7 in something like this?

It seems odd to me as well, you would really want to avoid a Windows license to pay all that money and not just put Windows on it.

I would guess that people must have asked though. There might be an element of "because we can" given all the cpus use the same pinout, but even then designing for an i7 and them missing a few components off on things like the VRM to make a celeron version will still make the celeron version slightly more expensive. So I'm guessing that none of these are really mass market devices and Asus are scrabbling around a bit for sales.

But then I don't personally know anyone with a Chrome box, just laptops, people who wanted a box to plug into the TV seem to have gone Android box or Raspberry Pi.

Re: Asus launches Chromebox 3 desktops with 8th gen Intel CPUs

Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix

It seems odd to me as well, you would really want to avoid a Windows license to pay all that money and not just put Windows on it.

I would guess that people must have asked though. There might be an element of "because we can" given all the cpus use the same pinout, but even then designing for an i7 and them missing a few components off on things like the VRM to make a celeron version will still make the celeron version slightly more expensive. So I'm guessing that none of these are really mass market devices and Asus are scrabbling around a bit for sales.

But then I don't personally know anyone with a Chrome box, just laptops, people who wanted a box to plug into the TV seem to have gone Android box or Raspberry Pi.